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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: mush adding commas to addresses
Message-ID: <14340@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 16:41:27 GMT
References: <663@srhqla.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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In article <663@srhqla.UUCP> comp-mail-mush@srhqla.uucp writes:
)    2.7.  #RULE:  LISTS
)
)	A construct "#" is defined ... as follows:
)
)			    <l>#<m>element
)
)    indicating at least <l> and and most <m> elements, each separated
)    by one or more commas (",").  ....
)
)And from section 4.1 (Message Specification, Syntax), page 18:
)
)    destination =  "To"          ":" 1#address  ; Primary
)		/  "Resent-To" ....
)
)Therefore a "To:" field has at least one and at most an unspecified
)number of addresses, separated by one or more commas.

The problem I had with Sys V mail(1) as an MTA with Mush 6.4 a while
back was that Mush seemed to be APPENDING a comma even to a SINGLE
address!  I.e. 'mush joe' yielded an error message from mail(1)
saying 'Unknown address "joe,"'.  I switched to Smail 2.5 and the
problem went away, possibly because Smail is nicer.  I didn't look
too hard, had enough other problems in my life. :-)

I don't think a singleton of the form "joe," fits the above
syntax rule, do you?
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